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anyone else get embarrassed when their self indulgent daydreams are like too self-indulgent? like oh jeez the telepaths are going to judge me

library-seraph

#ah so when you’re not Catholic you think it’s telepaths lol

normal-horoscopes

Sentences that explain like 70% of America

dankmemeuniversity

linguisticfishstick

yes

heathyr

this man unlocked the beast’s cage and walked into it himself after bathing in raw meat juice. i have no sympathy for what happens to him as a result

heathyr

yallidarityforever

didn't those kids crash a Trump rally really fuckin hard? dude. kpop fans have a better track record for winning wars than the DoD. Tucker Carlson might literally die and we'll have Korean musicians and their fans to thank for it. godspeed, y'all. get him.

fuckyeahdavidandyonatan

@postcardpdf

nitghowl1600

Googled this man and all the news outlets are like RIP man but you did ask for this

linguisticfishstick

as a former stan . . . yea, good luck mate lmao

paxamericana

majortomiscominghome

were-ralph

this is so fucking funny

dankmemeuniversity

anexperimentallife

ddeathspell

khatoblepas

There they are, the two genders.

samael

only a cis deals in absolutes

cornchipz-revival

all of life and history aligned for that one joke we’re done everyone go home

its that time of the year again where everyone starts to reblog my college supplies checklist as if to stave off the impending doom of independent living. ah, the predictability of humanity.

#*taxes you like the government*#it is three am and i am loopy dont ask me to explain what that means #i am angry colleg boy need money and food #:[#yes make your supplies so i can steal them

linguisticfishstick

ao3 is down right now, and people are flocking to the down detector website to post about their woes and its fucking amazing. It’s like an unhinged groupchat of the loss and despair of thousands of people who suddenly lost access to their sweet sweet 3am seratonin.

this is unironically the most entertaining thing I’ve been a part of since the area 51 raid.

linguisticfishstick

Update: WE’RE BACK IN BUSINESS BABYYYY

we shall meet again my friends

#kicks my little gay legs happily #i saw this in the comments and ngl cant stop thinking about it #ao3

ao3 is down right now, and people are flocking to the down detector website to post about their woes and its fucking amazing. It’s like an unhinged groupchat of the loss and despair of thousands of people who suddenly lost access to their sweet sweet 3am seratonin.

this is unironically the most entertaining thing I’ve been a part of since the area 51 raid.

#ao3 #fanfic #fanfiction #ao3 is superior reads my guy #i was in the middle of the most devestating angst and then the website went down lmao #im suffering but so is everyone else #fandoms #fandom #meme #memes #im desperately hoping this unhinged groupchat continues

mr-deep-downer

hey don’t do that

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There were many reasons why I stepped away from archaeology & academia just 16 months post-PhD but the one that still angers me most today has to be the ways in which the Institution™ categorizes folklore vs science when it comes to Indigenous people. Ancestral knowledge of the ‘Old World’ is seen as a form of early science—curiosity leading to rigorous study and eventual advancement—with their fairytales and folklore viewed as purposefully allegorical. The Indigenous people of Africa, Turtle Island, and the rest of the so-called Americas never got that same respect. Outside of a handful of tokenized and understudied societies, most Indigenous ancestral knowledge is viewed through the lens of folklore—and no grace is given to allegory or metaphor or philosophy, either. The assumption is that our people can only think in literal, concrete terms. And it’s fucking insulting. There’s this joke in academia that if archaeologists don’t know an artifact’s usage they’ll deem it as ‘ritualistic purposes’; and it’s funny or whatever but nine times out of ten those artifacts are from [insert literally any Turtle Island or Mesoamerican nation] and not from much-older Greek civilizations. But it’s not well-studied because we’re not well-respected, and therefore nobody bothered to ask our still-living people who are very much aware of what said artifact was meant for (spoiler alert: not ritualistic).

Early on in my first Master’s program I got into a huge fight with a white professor who wanted to use a widely misinterpreted SuPeRsTiTiOn from MY tribe as an example of a persistent folktale. The folktale being that: Chiricahua Apache women don’t take baths during pregnancy bc we think the water is evil. It is true that, after being moved onto the rez, birthing + postpartum women were becoming ill when they bathed. This isn’t some ancient happening stoked by mythology—this is 100 years ago to recent times; midwives saw it happening and acted by cautioning against bathing. My grandmother, an Indigenous midwife, saw it play out and is very hesitant to recommend bathing to birthing women on the rez today. This isn’t because she or any other Chiricahua thinks water is evil; it’s because water quality has been so horrific that it quite literally was infecting the womb at its most vulnerable time. Had this been a European society, this knowledge would be considered evidence-based but since we’re Indigenous, they slap some contrived faux folkways mythos onto it and call it superstitious.

This is just one example of what happens on a constant basis when it comes to communities who are being oppressed by the same systems that set the standards for what science, history, and art are.

It’s maddening and sickening to me to this day.

(Tangentially, the next time I see a non-ndn upload or reblog our artifacts and crafts and tag it as “primitive art”, I’m going to scalp you. You’ve been duly warned)

linguisticfishstick

I would urge you to remain in the field to help bring awareness to these issues. I'm going into historical linguistic anthropology (the study of and restoration of dead and dying languages) and a very similar issue comes up in this field. However, I definitely understand how stressful and frustrating it would be to stay, it's your choice ofc

#plus im white as a paper plate so while I can see these unjustices I probs dont feel them as deeply as poc in the field do #you do you fam you prib understand it a lot better than me #archaeology #indigenous #native american #history #academia #linguistics